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Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Mill's extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill. Hayek first published the Mill-Taylor correspondence in 1951, and his edition soon became required reading for any study of the nineteenth-century foundations of liberalism.

This latest addition to the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series showcases the fascinating intersections between two of the most prominent thinkers from two successive centuries. Hayek situates Mill within the complex social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europe-as well as within twentieth-century debates on socialism and planning-and uncovers the influence of Taylor-Mill on Mill's political economy. The volume features the Mill-Taylor correspondence and brings together for the first time Hayek's related writings, which were widely credited with beginning a new era of Mill scholarship.

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. Sandra J. Peart is dean and professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmo...

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Part I. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage

Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Symbols Used

Introduction

One Harriet Taylor and Her Circle (1830) Two Acquaintance and Early Crises (1830-1833) Three On Marriage and Divorce (about 1832) Four Friends and Gossip (1834-1842) Five The Years of Friendship (1834-1847) Six A Joint Production (1847-1849) Seven John Taylor's Illness and Death (1849) Eight Marriage and Break with Mill's Family (1851) Nine Illness (1851-1854) Ten Italy and Sicily (1854-1855) Eleven Greece (1855) Twelve Last Years and Death of Mrs. Mill (1856-1858) Appendix I Poems by Harriet Taylor Appendix II An Early Essay by Harriet Taylor Appendix III Family Trees

Part II. Related Writings

Thirteen John Stuart Mill at the Age of Twenty-Five Fourteen J. S. Mill's Correspondence Fifteen The Dispersal of the Books and Papers of John Stuart Mill Sixteen J. S. Mill, Mrs. Taylor, and Socialism Seventeen Portraits of J. S. Mill Eighteen Preface to The Life of John Stuart Mill Nineteen Review of Mill and His Early Critics Twenty Review of John Mill's Boyhood Visit to France Twenty-One Introduction to Considerations on Representative Government Twenty-Two Introduction to The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, 1812-1848 Twenty-Three Related Correspondence Index of Names Index of Subjects

Editorial Reviews

“The details of this indescribable relationship [between John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor] were first aired in a book published in 1951 by F. A. Hayek, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. It has now been republished, along with ten occasional pieces (one previously unpublished) and some correspondence, as Hayek on Mill.”